[ Upstream commit 3f9fbe9bd86c534eba2faf5d840fd44c6049f50e ] Similar to how decrementing rb->next too early can cause data_head to (temporarily) be observed to go backward, so too can this happen when we increment too late.
This barrier() ensures the rb->head load happens after the increment, both the one in the 'goto again' path, as the one from perf_output_get_handle() -- albeit very unlikely to matter for the latter. Suggested-by: Yabin Cui <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Fixes: ef60777c9abd ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index fde853270c09..aef2af80a927 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ static void perf_output_put_handle(struct perf_output_handle *handle) unsigned long head; again: + /* + * In order to avoid publishing a head value that goes backwards, + * we must ensure the load of @rb->head happens after we've + * incremented @rb->nest. + * + * Otherwise we can observe a @rb->head value before one published + * by an IRQ/NMI happening between the load and the increment. + */ + barrier(); head = local_read(&rb->head); /* -- 2.20.1
